14587. Adulteration of walnut meats.    IT.  S. v. 20 Cases of Walnut Meats.
Decree   of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and    destruction   entered.
(F. & D. No. 20827.    I. S. No. 10420-x.    S. No. W-1863.)
On February 6, 1926, the United States attorney for the Western District of 
Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure and 
condemnation of 20 cases of walnut meats, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
Sunset Nut Shelling Co., from San Francisco, Calif., January 23, 1926, and 
transported from the State of California into the State of Washington, and 
charging adulteration In violation of the food and drugs act. The article was 
labeled in part: " Walnut Meats Packed By Sunset Nut Shelling Co. San 
Francisco, Cal."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it       \ 
consisted wholly or in part of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance.
On May 18, 1926, the Sunset Nut Shelling Co., San Francisco, Calif., having 
appeared as claimant for the property and having admitted the allegations of 
the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal, 
and that the claimant pay the costs.
W. M. JABDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.   .